- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- The Relevance of Natural Language Versus Terms and Connectors Searching in Westlaw and Lexis
- Creator:
- Taylor, Amy
- Date of Original:
- 2025-01-01
- Subject:
- Law--History
Constitutional law
Law--Study and teaching - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Thirty years have passed since a published comparison of natural language and terms and connectors searching in legal databases, and that analysis included only Westlaw. The current study compares natural language and terms and connectors searching in both Westlaw and Lexis for two hypothetical scenarios. Searchers ran four searches for each hypothetical: Lexis natural language, Westlaw natural language, Lexis terms and connectors, and Westlaw terms and connectors. The results showed no statistically significant difference between natural language and terms and connectors for either hypothetical. This suggests it may be appropriate to reduce the time and energy spent teaching law students how to use terms and connectors in searches.
atural language -- Westlaw -- Lexis -- boolean -- searching -- terms and connectors -- legal research -- legal education - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1732
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
-
